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NEW DELHI: A key witness in the 2G spectrum allocation case told a Delhi court that former telecom minister A Raja , main accused in the case, had visited residence of DMK MP Kanimozhi, and also requested that he 'need not be disturbed' while he was there. Kanimozhi is a co-accused in the case. Aseervartham Achary , Raja's former additional private secretary revealed these details to the CBI Special court . He had not told this to the CBI or the Magistrate while recording his statement.

JODHPUR: Key witness and aide of incarcerated self-styled godman Asaram Bapu was today remanded to nine-day judicial custody by a local court here. Shiva was produced before District and Sessions Judge Manoj Kumar Vyas , who sent him to judicial custody till September 16. Now, both Asaram and Shiva will be produced in the court on September 16. Police kept Shiva in its custody for four days and has extracted vital information pertaining to the case, officials said.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court today reserved for August 4 its order on a plea challenging a magisterial court's verdict dismissing a criminal complaint against Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh and two others for allegedly kidnapping a key witness of the 2008 cash-for-vote case. Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kapoor reserved the order after hearing arguments advanced by the counsel of complainant Hashmat Ali , who was a key witness in the cash-for-vote scam case, and the advocate appearing for Amar Singh and others.

NEW DELHI: Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur , one of the prime accused in 2008 Malegaon blast case, had congratulated right-wing terrorists Lokesh Sharma and Rajender Chaudhary - who treated her as an elder sister - for killing RSS worker Sunil Joshi in 2007 after he made "licentious advances" towards her, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has said in a 12-page charge sheet. The charge sheet submitted recently, which was accessed by ET, presents a picture of a bitter divide within the right-wing extremist group which is said to be behind a series of bombings between 2006 and 2008.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today allowed the high-power committee probing flip-flops of Best Bakery case key witness Zaheera Sheikh time till August 16 to complete the inquiry and present its report. A bench comprising Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice H K Sema allowed the application filed by the committee, which is headed by registrar-general of the Supreme Court B M Gupta, giving it time till mid-August to complete its inquiry. The Gupta committee, assisted by joint commissioner of Delhi Police Kanwaljeet Deol, had questioned Zaheera, social activist Teesta Shetalvad as well as BJP MLA Madhu Srivastava and his relative Bhattu Srivastava on allegations relating to frequent change of statements by the Best Bakery case witness.

MUMBAI: Family members of Bharat Borge, a key witness in Anil Ambani's chopper sabotage case who was found dead under mysterious circumstances on a railway track in a Mumbai suburb, have sought a CBI enquiry into his death. Borge, who was a technician with Airworks, the company which maintains Ambani's helicopter, was found dead on railway tracks between Vile Parle and Andheri stations last evening. "The state government must seek a CBI probe into the matter as the entire episode of Bharat's death is not clear.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted two more days time to Vikas Yadav, the main accused in the Nitish Katara murder case, to produce four defence witnesses before the trial court. Allowing four witnesses out of 12, who are yet to be examined, Justice V B Gupta directed the accused to produce Tanu Choudhury (estranged wife of key witness Ajay Katara), Circle Officer (CO) Ghaziabad city, one journalist each from Jain TV and Star TV for recording of statements on 27 and 28 of this month.

NEW DELHI: The CBI on Thursday got some more time from a city court to file its report in an anti-Sikh riot case allegedly involving Congress leader Jagdish Tytler as key witness Jasbir Singh's petition to record his testimony in the US is pending before the Delhi High Court. Taking into account the HC's notice to the CBI over Singh's petition, additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sanjiv Jain asked the agency to file its report on March 12. The court had on December 18 ordered the CBI to reinvestigate the case, after the witness surfaced in the US and expressed his willingness to record his statement against Mr Tytler.

MUMBAI: Officials of Anil Ambani-led Reliance group and Airworks company could be called for questioning in connection with the death of Bharat Borge, a key witness to chopper sabotage case, police said. "So far we have not issued any summons calling Reliance employees for questioning," a senior Crime Branch official said. "However, if the need arises we can call them," the official said. Bharat Borge, the man who found pebbles in the fuel tank of industrialist Anil Ambani's helicopter, was found dead yesterday on railway tracks between Vile Parle and Andheri suburban stations.

MUMBAI: Pravin Mahajan had threatened his brother Pramod when the late BJP leader refused to meet his demand of Rs 1 crore a few days before he shot him last year, Pramod's wife Rekha, a key witness in the murder case, told a court on Tuesday. Rekha told a sessions court conducting the trial in the Pramod Mahajan murder case that a few days before the incident on April 22, 2006, Pravin had come to their Worli residence and demanded Rs 1 core from his elder brother. According to Rekha, Pramod tried to convince him that he did not have that much money.